Poland's Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki on Monday
September 4, said the country will seek the extradition from Italy of
the four suspects including a Nigerian teenager in the gang rape of a
Polish tourist on a beach in the Italian resort of Rimini.
Jaki said that the four should face a very severe punishment to discourage others from committing such crimes.
The suspects are a 20-year-old Congolese asylum-seeker, two
Moroccan brothers, aged 15 and 17, who were born in Italy and a
16-year-old Nigerian reportedly born in Italy.
They are being held in Italy. Polish authorities have
opened their own investigation into the attack. The suspects are also
accused of also beating the Polish woman's partner unconscious and
robbing them.
The four are also alleged to have raped a Peruvian woman on
the same night in a separate incident. It's not immediately clear if
Italy would agree to extradition.
"I don't want to jump to conclusions now," Jaki told state Radio.
Jaki said the four, if found guilty, should "face very high
punishment as an example, because the punishment should be preventive
and make others think seven times before they try to commit such a
crime."
According to Italian media, all four have denied any role
in the attack, but reports in Poland say a watch belonging to the
partner of the raped Pole was found on the Congolese suspect.
Cristina Ugolini, the head of a center assisting migrants
in Pesaro, where the Congolese suspect was assigned, told Sky TG24 TV he
had been granted "humanitarian protection" in September 2016 and
attended the center until April 2017, without providing any cause for
alarm.
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